CHAPTER V TRANSPORTATION, CUSTOMS EXAMINATION AND QUARANTINE
INSPECTION OF POSTAL MATERIALS
@@ Article 26. Transportation units operating railways,
highways, waterways and airlines shall all have the responsibility
of carrying and transporting postal materials, and shall ensure
priority to transporting postal materials at preferential freight
charges.
@@ Article 27. When postal enterprises transfer postal
materials in railway stations, airports and ports, transportation
units concerned shall make coordinated arrangement of space and
in-and-out passageways for loading and unloading postal materials.
@@ Article 28. Ships with special postal marks, postal vans and
postal staff shall be given priority in entering and departing ports
and crossing on ferries. Postal vehicles with special postal marks
which need to pass through a lane closed to traffic or to stop in
no-parking sections of the road shall be verified and approved by
the competent department concerned for passing or parking.
@@ Article 29. When transported by sea, postal materials shall
not be included in arrangements for sharing common sea losses.
@@ Article 30. Postal enterprises shall not post or deliver
international postal articles that are not examined and allowed to
pass by the Customs. The Customs shall supervise the entry and
exit, opening, sealing and dispatching of international mail bags.
Postal enterprises shall inform the Customs of their business hours
in advance, and the Customs shall promptly send officials to supervise
on-the-spot checking and examination.
@@ Article 31. Postal materials that are subject to health and
quarantine inspections or animal and plant quarantine inspections
according to law shall be sorted out and quarantined under the charge
of quarantine offices; no transportation and delivery shall be
conducted by postal enterprises without a permit from a quarantine
office.
CHAPTER VI COMPENSATION FOR LOSSES
@@ Article 32. Users may present receipts and inquire, within
one year counting from the date of the posting or remitting, about
vouchered postal materials and remittances which they handed in for
posting or remitting at the postal enterprises or their branch
offices that took in the postal materials or accepted the remittances.
Postal enterprises or branch offices shall inform inquirers of the
results of inquiry within the time limit set by the competent
department of postal services under the State Council.
If no result is found within the time limit for responding to the
inquiry, postal enterprises shall make compensation first or take
remedial measures. Within a year counting from the date of making
such compensation, if it is ascertained that the circumstance for
which the compensation was made conforms with either item 2 or item
3 of Article 34 of this Law, the postal enterprises shall have the
right to recall the compensation.
@@ Article 33. For losses, damage, destruction or missing
contents of vouchered postal materials, postal enterprises shall
make compensation or take remedial measures according to the following
stipulations:
(1) For registered mail, compensation shall be made according to
standard amounts formulated by the competent department of postal
services under the State Council.
(2) For insured postal materials which are lost or totally
damaged or destroyed, compensation shall be made according to the
insurance coverage. For missing contents or partial damage or
destruction of insured postal materials, compensation shall be made
according to the actual losses of the postal materials, based on the
ratio between the insurance coverage and the whole value of the postal
materials.
(3) For uninsured postal parcels, compensation shall be made
according to the actual damages due to loss of such postal
parcels, but the maximum compensation shall not exceed the amount
formulated by the competent department of postal services under the
State Council.
(4) For other types of vouchered postal materials, compensation
shall be made or remedial measures taken according to the measures
provided for by the competent department of postal services under the
State Council.
@@ Article 34. Postal enterprises shall not be held
liable for compensation, if one of the following situations occurs:
(1) losses of ordinary postal materials;
(2) losses of vouchered postal materials caused by the user or due
to some characteristic of the posted articles per se;
(3) losses of vouchered postal materials, other than postal
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